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Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts

A Book Review by James F. Doyle
(Issue 42 - January 2-8, 2001)


In Good Company
By Tony G. LeTrent-Jones and Jeremy J. Shapiro
Today's 'social capital' is yesterday's 'old boy's network.'
(Issue 47 - February 6-12, 2001)

The Dynamics of E-Commerce

By John Stuckey
"Unchained Value" provides insight into the successes and failures of the digital age.
(Issue 3 - March 6-12, 2001)

Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

Reviewed By James F. Doyle.
How the Napsters of the future will affect the Internet status quo.
(Issue 15 - May 29 - June 5, 2001)

Business in a Virtual World

Reviewed By James F. Doyle.
Beyond knowledge: Companies enter the information age when they recognize information as something of value in its own right.
(Issue 23 - July 31 - August 6, 2001)

Breaking Down the Digital Walls

Review By James F. Doyle.
Two teachers chronicle their personal odyssey in finding a fitting role for technology in education.

Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust

Review By Peter Neumann.
Required reading for anyone aspiring to develop or teach of computer systems.
(Issue 41 - December 18-24, 2001)

On the Internet: Thinking in Action

Review By Arun Kumar Tripathi
Life and learning on the Net through the eyes of a philosopher.
(Issue 42 - January 8-44, 2002)

Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction

Review by Austin Henderson.
An in-depth look at why some products can be used with ease, and others leave you frustrated
(Issue 5 - March 26 - April 1, 2002)

The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist

Reviewed By James F. Doyle
When the going gets tough, the tough go portfolio.
(Issue 11 - April 30 - May 6, 2002)

XML, Web Services, and the Data Revolution

Book Review James F. Doyle
Harnessing the power of XML for Web-based development.
(Issue 14 - May 21-27, 2002)

Ruling the Root

Review By Robert Heterick
Understanding the Domain Name System controversy
(Issue 20 - July 2-8, 2002)

Social Thinking — Software Practice

Review by Paul Duguid
Mind the Gap
(Issue 25 - August 6-12, 2002)

Highly Parallel Computations: Algorithms and Applications

Review by Ron Hutchins
How scientists will use "metacomputational" facilities to solve complex problems.
(Issue 31 - September 17-23, 2002)

Bell Labs: Life in the Crown Jewel

Reviewed by Robert M. Siegmann
Competition in the telecommunications industry has come at a tremendous cost
(Issue 1 - March 4 - 10, 2003)

The Power of Events

Review By Frank P. Coyle
An overview of more than a decade of work on event systems, formal specification and temporal reasoning
(Issue 4 - March 18 - 24, 2003)

A Pattern Language for Web Usability

Review By Carl Bedingfield
In the world of wu the Web is a friendly and organized place.
(Issue 24 - August 5-11, 2003)

Spinning the Semantic Web

Review By Carl Bedingfield
Are you looking for a method for managing Web data in a useful and orderly format? Your search is over. This handbook is both a good introduction for the metadata neophyte and a useful reference for the semantically hip.
(Issue 41 - December 10-16, 2003)

What is Web Design?

Review By Shelley Evenson
A compilation of issues, process and practice in design for connected interactive experiences.
(Issue 44 - January 6-12, 2004)

Rethinking Rights and Regulations — Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies

Like it or not, as users of new technologies we are playing the telecommunication game by an increasingly complicated set of rules. Reviewed by Carl Bedingfield
(Issue 9 - April 28 - May 4, 2004)

Does It Matter?

Judge This Book by its Cover.
Review by John Stuckey
(Issue 18 - June 30 - July 6, 2004)

The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society

Compact, inexpensive, and ubiquitous mobile phones both bring us together and move us apart.
Review by John Stuckey
(Issue 28 - September 8 - September 14, 2004)

Community in the Digital Age

Social scientists and philosophers argue the meaning of our evolving online lives.
Review by Arun Kumar Tripathi
(Issue 28 - September 8 - September 14, 2004)

The Medici Effect

Where ideas collide, innovation happens.
Review by John Stuckey
(Issue 36 - November 17 - November 23, 2004)

Activity-Centered Design - An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Symbols

With new insights to a well-documented topic, this book offers an excellent incentive and useful tools for system designers to pursue activity-centered design.
Review by Carl Bedingfield
(Issue 38 - December 1 - December 7, 2004)

Time and Time Again

A Review Of Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams. Reviewed by John Stuckey
(Issue 2 - January 25 - February 1, 2005)

Book Review: Rich Ling's "The Mobile Connection"

An excerpt from Rich Ling's "The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society" (Elsevier), a new book that explores and explains the growing scholarship on the social consequences of mobile communication.
(Issue 33 - September 13 - September 20, 2005)

"Great Software Debates" By Alan M. Davis

In his review of Davis's book of essays, "Great Software Debates," Carl Bedingfield concludes: "The industry needs this book."
(Issue 38 - October 19-25, 2005)

Location Base Services

Book reviewer Keith Willet examines "Location-Based Services Fundamentals and Operation" by Axel Küpper and says the book prepares the reader to speak in LBS terms in such nuance as to determine the appropriate approach to an LBS project, discuss a variety of options, determine a reasonable approach, and begin the development of a solution.
(Issue 43 - November 23-29, 2005)

A Guide to MATLAB: for Beginners and Experienced Users

Ubiquity Associate Editor Ross Gagliano reviews the new "Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users," by Brian R. Hunt, Ronald L. Lipsman, and Jonathan M. Rosenberg.
(Issue 28 July 25, 2006 - July 31, 2006)

Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments

Ross Gagliano Book reviewer of "Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments: Technologies For Building Business Intelligence And Consumer Confidence" by Elizabeth Chang, Tharam Dillon, and Farookh Hussain.
(Issue 29 August 1, 2006 - August 7, 2006)

Data Mining in E-Learning

Book reviewer Ross Gagliano reviews the book "Data Mining in E-Learning" (C. Romero and S. Ventura, editors)
(Issue 30 August 8, 2006 - August 14, 2006)

The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design

Book reviewer Ross Gagliano Ross Gagliano considers the new book, "The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design." Gagliano is an associate editor of Ubiquity.
(Issue 34 September 5 - September 11, 2006)

The Cognitive Dynamics of Computer Science: Cost Effective Large Scale Software Development

Book reviewer Ross Gagliano discusses the new John Wiley book, "The Cognitive Dynamics of Computer Science: Cost Effective Large Scale Software Development," by Michael de Gyurky
(Issue 36 September 19 - September 25, 2006)

Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks: A Pain-free, Project-based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook

Ubiquity associate editor Ross Gagliano reviews Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks: A Pain-free, Project-based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook, a new book by Rickford Grant.
(Issue 2 - January 16 - January 22, 2007)

Books reviewed by Ross Gagliano

Ubiquity associate editor Ross Gagliano
Books on Math, Signal Processing, Trials, and Advice on How To Get Through a Ph.D. Program
(Issue 11 - March 20 - March 26, 2007)

Process Expression

Ubiquity associate editor Ross Gagliano begins this book review:
"Karl Fant has written a very compelling book that should be read by both academicians and practitioners alike. Here I speak from experience, having assumed a role in both in prior incarnations. Fant's rejection of commonly held mathematical foundations should pique the curiosity of those in the theoretical computer science community. On the other hand, those in the "real world" of circuits, architecture, compilers, programming, operating systems, and applications need to be aware of Fant's proposed clockless systems design."
Suggestion: First read the review by Ross Gagliano, and then read Karl Fantd's new book, "Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression."
(Issue 34 - August 28 - September 3, 2007)

Dr. Ross Gagliano, a Ubiquity Associated Editor, brings us two reviews:

I. Unleashing Web 2.0 from Concept to Creativity
II. The LEGO Mindstorms NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build
(Issue 50 - December 18 - December 24, 2007)

* Ubiquity Associate Editor Ross Gagliano gives a favorable nod to the new Rosenfeld Media book "Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior," by Indi Young.
(Issue 16 - April 22 - 28, 2008)